E-Commerce Connect Intel Report providing real-time gardening industry insights from retailer social media activity, including plant trends, events, promotions, and regional market signals.

E-Commerce Connect for Garden Centers introduces pre-designed garden layouts with Plants That Work® and Plant by Number—complete plant collections with ground templates that customers can order online from their local garden center and have delivered ready to install.

E-Commerce Connect for Garden Centers is now expanding into Canada with LaPorte’s Nursery and Landscape Direct. This marks a major step for independent garden centers looking to sell plants online through dropshipping, extend their reach, and meet growing customer demand for home delivery.

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Garden centers are staying active on social media during peak spring season by using E-Commerce Connect’s ready-made Canva templates—saving time, posting consistently, and promoting their online stores without slowing down operations.

Firefly Petunias are trending right now—and for the first time, independent garden centers can capture that demand instantly without the burden of inventory, turning a viral plant into real, local sales. There are moments in the plant world when something moves beyond being just another variety and becomes something people talk about everywhere. Firefly Petunias have reached that point. What started as curiosity has quickly turned into real demand. These bioluminescent petuni

What’s unfolding in plant retail isn’t a battle between online and in-store. It’s a realignment of who is best positioned to serve the modern customer. Spend any time in garden retail and you quickly notice something that doesn’t quite add up. Consumers are perfectly comfortable buying nearly everything online — clothing, groceries, furniture, even cars — yet plants still make people pause. They browse, they research, they save items to carts… and then they hesitate. This isn

When suppliers start telling their customers about a program, it’s usually a sign the network effect has begun... A New Chapter for the Green Industry The green industry has always been built on relationships. Growers, suppliers, and independent garden centers have relied on trusted partnerships to move products, share knowledge, and serve customers in their communities. What we are seeing now with the E-Commerce Connect Program is the digital evolution of those same relatio

If your customers can’t tap and buy directly from your posts, you’re creating friction—and losing sales. When you leverage our Canva templates from "The Post Office", that call to action button on our flyers are place holders for your product tags. On our templates, you may see “Shop Now”, "Get Yours Today", or “Learn More”, those buttons are just part of the image design. It looks clickable, but it isn’t until YOU tag your products. You can choose to delete this button in ou